Trying to figure out which camera to buy ? Can someone tell me the followings,

1.Is it fair to compare FZ20 with Nikon D70 and Canon Rebel ?
2. For FZ20, where or how to adjust focus and f/stop setting ? Is it all done on the camera lens as in classic 35mm camera lens or push buttons at the back of the camera as in most modern digital compact cameras ? Thanks

Trying to figure out which camera to buy ? Can someone tell me the followings,

1.Is it fair to compare FZ20 with Nikon D70 and Canon Rebel ?

Not, it is not fair since the D70 and Digital Rebel have a much larger sensor size.

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2. For FZ20, where or how to adjust focus and f/stop setting ? Is it all done on the camera lens as in classic 35mm camera lens or push buttons at the back of the camera as in most modern digital compact cameras ? Thanks

the focus is adjusted by a little plastic stuff placed at the left side of the camera.....and the f/stop setting by moving the jog dial to "A" ( the jog is at the top, but the arrows to change the aperture are at the back....quite easy

Trying to figure out which camera to buy ? Can someone tell me the followings,

1.Is it fair to compare FZ20 with Nikon D70 and Canon Rebel ?

That depends on what you are comparing but not really. The Canon and D70 are interchangable lens dSLRs but you knew that right? The dSLRs have TTL viewfinders where the FZ (and all others like it) do not. It has an Electronic Viewfinder (evf). I think the dSLRs also have a larger chip so they may be less noisy in some situations. Those, in my opinion, are the largest differences worth noting from a user standpoint.

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2. For FZ20, where or how to adjust focus and f/stop setting ? Is it all done on the camera lens as in classic 35mm camera lens or push buttons at the back of the camera as in most modern digital compact cameras ? Thanks

The FZ20 does have manual focus but not manual zoom. You can manually set speed and aperature via menus on the screen.

If you Really want to make a valid compare, go to the websites and download the manuals. Decide what you want to do and see if the cameras will serve the purpose.

There was another post that I saw a while back that compared the FZ10 to the rebel and from recollection the FZ10's pictures were better, which was a bit shocking. I'll post the link as soon as I find it.

Even if you try to compare them for image quality, if you do it on here, the bigger images are gonna suffer more from reduction. To get an accurate comparison, you'd have to compare a 4 Mpixel image on 3 cameras equallly reduced in size to fit here, or whatever site you are putting them on. If you are linking, and not reducing, out of fairness, they all still have to be set to 4 Mpixel.

Oops..I do that all the time. I have the FZ10, and I am so use to telling people its 4 Mpixel..that I tend to slip when I post sometimes. 5 Mpixel indeed. Like your Johnny Depp Icon...but I AM fearing Willy Wonka by Tim Burton.